Our House before we moved to Belize.Our hut in Belize is below. Kids had much less stuff.Flicking through television stations one afternoon--yes I know what you're thinking, but please don't go there-- I came across the Oprah Show, and noticed a family of four facing the audience. The blond mother did not smile, the husband seemed intimidated, the Continue Reading
Bestseller Author Hope Edelman and I have Belize in common.
Thanks to my blogger friend Shirley, and her fabulous blog: 100 memoirs, I was alerted to a new memoir by Hope Edelman, The Possibility of Everything. Hope Edelman and I have three things in common:We both live in southern California.We both placed our hopes on Belize to resolve a problem we had with our kid(s).We both want to give back to Belize Continue Reading
A souvenir from Belize. A worm in my toe.
A PICTURE OF MY TOE IN BELIZEI woke up on Sunday October 18th, and noticed something different about the skin on my right foot. It had the texture of a jelly fish: squishy and inflamed. It was our last morning in Hopkins Village after a week of volunteering in the Mayan Village of Red Bank. During breakfast, I raised Continue Reading
Open Your Heart First if You Want to Help.
Where do you start when you experience a life changing event?For several days now, I've mulled over the notes in my journal; the one I kept during my week volunteering at a medical mission in the Mayan village of Red Bank, in Belize, and I keep coming back to the same phrase spoken by nurse Judy Krieg, our contact in Belize.This is Judy, always Continue Reading
OFF TO VOLUNTEER IN A MAYAN VILLAGE IN BELIZE.
When I entered the front door of Carol's house last Monday, I thought I'd stepped into a United Nations camp. Boxes of neosporine, band-aids, toothbrushes, toothpaste, flip-flops, socks, combs and toys were scattered in mounds all over her dining and living room floor, waiting for all twelve of us volunteers to squeeze fifty pounds into each Continue Reading
